American burlesque dancer
Jett Adore is an American burlesque dancer. He has performed as part of Stage Door Johnnies, Chicago's only all-male burlesque troop.[1] Due to his career success, Adore has been referred to as the Prince of Boylesque and is an inductee of the Burlesque Hall of Fame.
Biography
Jett Adore has a degree in musical theater. Adore dances alongside Ray Gunn and Bazuka Joe in Stage Door Johnnies.[2][3][4] The Stage Door Johnnies, founded in 2007, is the only all-male burlesque troop based in Chicago.[5][6][7] In 2011 he performed at the New York Burlesque Festival.[8] In 2013 Adore performed in La Divina Productions' show Hotter Then Hell Burlesque at the Kessler Theater in Dallas.[9] In 2014 he was a performer at the Show Me Burlesque Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, the Texas Burlesque Festival, the Helsinki Burlesque Festival in Finland, and the Vienna Boylesque Festival in Austria.[10][11][12][13] He performed the opening and closing acts at the 2014 New York Boylesque Festival.[14] In 2016 he performed with Dita von Teese in her show Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray Variety Show.[15]
Adore has won numerous burlesque awards. In 2011 Stage Door Johnnies won Best Troupe at the Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend in Las Vegas.[16] He was also awarded Most Innovative by the Burlesque Hall of Fame at the 2011 Tournament of Tease. In 2012 he won Best Duo alongside Frenchie Kiss at the tournament.[17] In 2015 he opened his own show, Diamond Studs, in New York City.[18][19]
Adore also teaches boylesque performance and technique, and hosts a master class called Exploring Masculinity.[20]
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